Lionel 224e and 226e questions

Yes, original studs and gears are available. Parts run about $5.00 and it takes about an hour and a half to do the repair properly and re-quarter the wheels.

Hi Dennis 

Patiently waiting for my order AB-1186 to get sorted afterwards i have several

675M-1 motors , one just needs wheels re-quartered, the other as discussed

in this thread needs the gear and stud replaced.

Then eventually at another time i need part 726-11 from a 1946 "726" drilled and tapped for eccentric crank

its a NOS part and several others that need the gear on axle replaced which i have if you don not.

Have to do these things little at a time as im retired and on fixed income.

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Not too worry my friend, we are in touch with USPS every other day on several packages. We could accept one or two once in a while, but the postal service, in spite of their nice-nice comments really need to get their act together.

As far as your 726-11 steam chest is concerned, if you are restoring an original 1946 and want the pins put back into the steam chest as it was originally, let me know, we can do that and then clinch it back onto your 1946 726 frame.

Dennis

FIXED IT!  I had the box and bubble wrap all set to go to send it to Dennis to replace the gear.  But first I have to apologize for something. When I buy a PW or Prewar engine, I take it apart (no matter how it runs) and tune it up....as I mentioned above....springs, brushes, clean e-unit, commutator, lube etc. Well, I remembered last week that this one had slipped through the "gate". It was really clean and ran well, so I didn't want to open up this 70 plus year old engine (dumb). Anyway, I ordered brushes and springs for it and opened it up today. The springs I ordered were too short, so I had to use the old ones which were in very good shape (looked new). The brushes, however......one was upside down with the grooved part on the commutator. Talk about unequal pressure. I checked those gears before I put it back together and they didn't seem all that different from the play in other engines I have. So, I had my fingers crossed. I use a 1033 for a test transformer and it doesn't provide a lot of voltage. It ran on alligator clips, so I reassembled. I didn't have the impression it was revving very high. Put it on the track and BINGO!. Running at 10V forward and backward and flying around the track at 16v which was what I'd have to previously use just for normal speed. 

So, thanks for all the responses. It was a real interesting thread. And the best part is....it runs like a Swiss watch now.....like my 224.     I thought for sure it was going for repair, but when I saw that upside down brush, I said......"what is this?"  

Roger

Congratulations on your successful trouble shooting effort.  There can be no question about it because you certainly were determined to locate the source of your trouble.  Happy running.

Thanks, Ok.  Interesting thing......Jeff Kane had asked me what kind of springs it had when I was setting up my order.  I didn't want to dismantle the whole thing if I could see the tubes from the side, so I got a flashlight in there and I could see one of the tubes. It looked solid.....like a coil spring tube. Jeff said.....I don't think they made them with coils and sent me wire springs . Turns out, what I was looking at was the upside down brush all the way up to the top of it's tube. From the bad angle that I was viewing it, it looked solid. Little did I know what I'd find. All's well that ends well.

Roger